My cure for room temperature IQ's

[Cheyenne]

No comment.

We could only hope.



Maybe Samauri was "conflating" the two?

http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44095

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Being intelligent is a far cry from having common sense. I would say that someone with common sense fares better in this world than someone with intelligence.

What is "common sense"? I dare say that it is not the same as wisdom, or the opposite of ignorance. If it is the sense that is common to all people then I would say it is closer to ignorance and stupidity than to wisdom. In short, I dislike using the term due to its connotations.

STG

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

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Originally posted by SimplySouthern
Being intelligent is a far cry from having common sense. I would say that someone with common sense fares better in this world than someone with intelligence.
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Are they mutualy exclusive?

No, but they are not mutually dependant either. A wise person can become wiser with more knowledge, and since intelligence is the capacity/potential to understand knowledge (but not necessarily how to wisely use it) then intelligent people theoretically have the potential to have greater wisdom. But wisdom also comes from experience, maturity and good morals - in fact I would say it comes primarily from those three.

Lack of intelligence can however limit wisdom when a person is placed into a situation where they don't have the intelligence to understand the situation. They can then be manipulated by people who are more intelligent, but possibly less wise and more malevolent.

STG

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Great evil has been committed in this world by very smart people.

Usually with the help of some very stupid people.

Stupid people, by contrast, generally don't ever get enough pull in the world to cause serious problems. They are often propped up by smarter people to take the fall for stupid, short-sighted decisions, but by definition stupid people don't have it together enough to, say, attempt genocide. Hitler was evil, but not stupid.

Never underestimate stupidity - what it lacks in intelligence it makes up for in numbers. Hitler would never have been able to do what he did if he didn't have millions of stupid people willing to do it for him. That is not to say that there weren't a lot of intelligent people that also helped him, or that he would have succeeded without them - but that by and far, the numbers were on the stupid side.

Hitler was not stupid, but he was not particularly intelligent either. Had he listened a little more to his advisors in the latter half of the war he would have done a lot more damage. Eventually he would have been stopped, but he made some pretty good blunders. Not all of the schemes to kill him were meant to stop his regime, but rather to save it from him.

STG